Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Constitution, to combat all influences which breed class or religious discrimination, and to restore the individualism which once marked the American, but which has been so largely swallowed up by unions, vast industries, and "collective bargaining." Again General Dawes has tackled a man-sized job...
...present political position is that President Li is obliged to stand in with General Wu in order to keep his job; for Dr. Sun has openly agreed to recognize as a candidate for the Presidency General Tsao- Kun. The Government party is, then, a tertuis quid, because the issue is between General Wu and his friends and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen and his supporters...
...should join the League as well as the Court. Those who make this objection, according to Mr. Hoover, " are the ones who would have complained on the Wednesday night of Genesis, and would have gone to bed with a grouch because the Creator had not yet made a finished job of the sun and the moon, and would have called a mass meeting on Thursday morning to demand more forward action...
...play is, in a curious way, a combination of some of the basic legends of literature. There is the Faust motif in David's brief hour of the pleasure of giving which will cease when the last kopeck is gone; there is the Job motif in the curse that he suffers; there is a touch of Milton's Satan in the heroic defiance of Anathema; there is a strong suggestion of Stephen in the stoning of a Christlike man by the people "who know not what they...
Those people of Genesis who would have gone to bed Wednesday night with a grouch because the Creator had not finished His job...